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Multirole Logic (Extended Abstract)

Logic 2017-03-21 v1 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Logic in Computer Science Programming Languages

Abstract

We identify multirole logic as a new form of logic in which conjunction/disjunction is interpreted as an ultrafilter on the power set of some underlying set (of roles) and the notion of negation is generalized to endomorphisms on this underlying set. We formalize both multirole logic (MRL) and linear multirole logic (LMRL) as natural generalizations of classical logic (CL) and classical linear logic (CLL), respectively, and also present a filter-based interpretation for intuitionism in multirole logic. Among various meta-properties established for MRL and LMRL, we obtain one named multiparty cut-elimination stating that every cut involving one or more sequents (as a generalization of a (binary) cut involving exactly two sequents) can be eliminated, thus extending the celebrated result of cut-elimination by Gentzen.

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@article{arxiv.1703.06391,
  title  = {Multirole Logic (Extended Abstract)},
  author = {Hongwei Xi and Hanwen Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.06391},
  year   = {2017}
}
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